instruments with a common characteristic
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Arrange
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to set a work originally written for one instrument (or set of instruments) for another instrument or set of instruments
Bas instruments
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soft instruments suitable for chamber music
Common time
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the time signature 4/4 See common time in Elements of a Musical Score see in Time Signatures
Haut instruments
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loud instruments, particular those designed to be played out of doors
Instrumentation
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the disposition of instruments in a musical work, which instruments plays what lines in the score
Pick
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small piece of plastic (or other material including metal, bone or shell) that is used to strum or pluck stringed instruments…
Purfling
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an inlay of wood placed along or just inside the border of the belly and back of instruments of the stringed instrument famil…
Transposing instruments
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instruments that do not play the notes they read